What’s an unsung makeup hero? For me, it’s an usually underrated makeup morsel, a long-term collection product that scoots under the radar screen of lots of makeup enthusiasts however routinely rocks my world. The long-running Unsung Heroes series features a few of my favorites.

Who am I? What have you made with Karen? What’s happening to me? I don’t understand why — whether some otherworldly entity has commandeered my body — however I’m having a majorly transformational moment with eyeliner ideal now, particularly brown eyeliner.

Actually, I do understand why… Lately, whenever I look in a mirror, I feel like my eyes look even a lot more exhausted than usual, as well as black liner makes it worse. Ironically, I utilized to nearly solely wear black liner, as well as I liked it.

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Then I found dark brown MAC Coffee.

MIND BLOWN.

It filled the exact same requirement that black liners filled — producing a thicker lash base, bigger-looking lids, defining the shape of my eyes — however didn’t look as harsh.

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So…I just figured out that even lighter shades than brown, like taupe, can work such as this too. as well as taupe. Is. Dope.

I’m incredibly in like with this $33 liner from the Chanel Le Stylo Yeux line called mat Taupe, which is — surprise! — a matte taupe. like MAC Coffee, it doesn’t have red undertones, however it’s somewhat lighter as well as less gray.

When I wear it to tight line as well as along my lash lines, it does ALL THE great stuff — defines my eyes, makes my lashes look thicker, etc. — however it’s even less extreme than dark brown.

For years, I pooh-poohed the concept of using brown liner since I believed it was tiring (“Why wear brown when you might wear black?”), however now I get it. now I know.

Not to Chrissy Teigan you once again (I’m a bit consumed with her at the moment), however for her makeup in her Cravings cookbook, she frequently uses a light brown or taupe liner, as well as the a lot more I look at her pics in the book, the a lot more I can see why mat Taupe works so well. It softly defines eyes without producing any type of extreme lines.

I dunno if you’ve ever tried using a taupe liner or a light brown, however I believe you should, particularly this from Chanel since IT’S GOOD.

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VIVA LA TAUPE LINER!

Your friendly community appeal addict,

Karen